Ticket-holder



(No Model.)

J. e. WEBB. TICKET HOLDER.

No. 403,234. Patented May 14, 1889.

22 vvvvvvvv'vvu TI'GKET- HOLDER- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe JOHN G.IVEBB, OF RYE, NEV YORK.

TICKET-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,234, dated May 14,1889.

Application filed August 30, 1888. Serial No. 284,195. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN G. VEBB, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Rye, in the county of Westchester and State 0f New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket- Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to ticketholders for use onpassenger-trains, and has for its main objects, iirst, the production ofa simple, cheap, and convenient device for retaining tickets, an'd,secondly, the provision of means by which the tickets inserted in theholders may be indented or marked in a manner to indicate that they havebeen used by passengers over the road, so as to prevent their reuse andthe consequent defrauding of the railroad company; and to these ends myinvention consistsv in the features of construction and combinations ofparts hereinafter more fully described, and particularly set forth inthe appended claims.

In the drawings accompanyingl this specification and forminga partthereof, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a seatbackprovided with ticket-holders embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan ofvblank for making. the ticket-holder. Fig. 3 is an end view of blankwhen folded on the dotted lines of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top view of thelower plate of thc holder. Fig. 5 is a bottom view of the upper plate ofthe holder. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the holder. Fig. 7 is an endelevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a top view of the seat-back, and Fig. 9is a vertical section on the line X X of Fig. 8.

In the several views the same part will be found designated by the samenumeral of reference.

2 designates the back of a railroad seat or chair upholstered, as usual,and provided with a wooden or metallic binding or strip, 3.

4 represents the ticket-holder as an entirety. It is made preferably ofa single sheet of metal, as represented at Fig. 2. This blank is foldedon the lines 5, 6, and 7 into the condition seen at Fig. 3, thusproviding an upper plate or jaw, 8, a lower plate or leaf, 9, and upperand lower flanges, 10 and 11. Upon the lower plate is secured, by solderor otherwise at each side edge,- a narrow strip of metal, l2, to form astop to the approach of the plates 8 and 9. The upper plate is bent downto the strips 12 and there held either by solder, rivets, or screws,leaving a space or opening, 13, between the plates for the reception ofthe ticket. As the stops or abutments 12 govern the width of the opening13, they should be of a height or thickness equal to or slightlyinexcess of the thickness of the tickets used. The upper and lower platesare provided with holes or perforations for the securement of thecontrivance to the upper portion of the back of the seat and beneath thebinding or top strip, 3. The bottom plate is preferably provided withperforations 14 14 and 15 15, and the top plate with perforations 16 1Gand 17 17, as I prefer to fasten the ticket-holder in place in a mannerto prevent, readily, its unauthorized removal.

While the binding-strip 3 is detached, screws 18 are pressed through theholes 14 14 and 16 16 into the wooden top rail of the back frame* workand the ticket-holder thus secured in position. The binding-strip isthen laid over the ticket-holder and screws 19 passed through holes init and through the perforations 15 15 and 17 17 into the framework. Bythus applying the .parts the ticket-holder cannot be removed withoutfirst taking off the bindingstrip. In lieu of providing the plates withthe holes 15 15 and 17 17, the holes in the binding-strip may be soarranged as to come outside of the ticket-holder and the screws 19inserted without passing through the latter. The effect would be thesame; but the ticketholder and the binding may be fastened in placesimultaneously by the screws 18, the perforations 14, 16, and 2O beingmade in line or so as to register when the parts are to be fastened inthis manner.

In practice I prefer not to solder or rivet the parts together to formthe opening 13, but to employ the fastening-screws 1S for thatpurpose.

' When the ticket-holder is applied to the back of the seat,its jaws aresprung abnormally apart; but when the fastening-screws 1S are insertedthe free end of the upper plate is forced or drawn down until it strikesagainst the abutments 12, which devices prevent the jaws being closedshould the screws be forced down too hard or too far. The upper fiange,10, forms a facing for the binding-strip, and the lower flange, 1.1,sunk flush with the plush or other covering of the back, affords aconvenient place for the inscription of the words Ticket-Holder. Theroots of these flanges are curved or rounded to facilitate the insertionof the tickets in the mouth of the opening 13. IVithin the opening 13are arranged devices for marking the tickets which may be inserted. Nearthe front of the opening and preferably depending from the top plate isarranged in a row a series of teeth or projections, 21, which arepreferably curved or semicylindrical. These teeth or blades are made ofthis shape or form for two purposesnamely, to assist in the insertion ofthe ticket and to avoid tearing or abrading the same. In ticket-holdersprovided with these devices the space between the upper surface of thelower plate and the bottom edges or points of the teeth should be aboutthe same as the thickness of the ticket, so that a little force will berequired to push the ticket well into the holder. As the ticket isforced by the teeth, the latter indent, mark, or score the same inparallel lines upon its side or face. Near the rear of the opening 13 isarranged a series of blades, 22, which are preferably secured to thelower plate. These blades are provided for the purpose of indenting orscoring the edge of the inserted ticket, and thus further indicatingthat the ticket has been used upon a train.

The teeth and the blades are preferably made of steel and soldered orotherwise secured within openings in the plates or leaves of the holder,which I prefer to make of sheetbrass.

The ticket-holder may be readily applied to the backs of the seatswithout disarrangement of the upholstery or the cutting away of anyportions of the seat-back or its covering, and when fixed in positionfits snugly to the cushion, thus avoiding any projection which would beliable to tear the clothing of the passenger or interfere with hiscomfort or his movements to and from his seat. The employment of thecontrivance is not only a convenience to the passenger, but it enablesthe conductor to move through the train collecting and punching ticketswith much greater rapidity.

By the employment of the marking devices tickets wliichhave been onceinserted into the holder will bear an indication or token of having beenused on a train, and thus dishonest passengers whose tickets theconductors have omitted to punch or collect will be unable to secure thereturn of their money at the companys office upon the pretext that thetickets have never been used. The marking devices are furthermore acheck upon the conductor, who will thus be prevented from retaining theticket-s and attempting to sell them to dealers or others when they bearunmistakable evidence of having been used on a train.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A ticket-holder consisting of the upper plate, the lower plate, andthe abi'ltments 12, arranged between said plates to define the width ofopening, in combination with a seatback and binding-strip, as set forth.

i. A ticket-holder consisting of the upper plate and the lower plate, incombination with a seatfbaek, a l'iinding-strip, and theretaining-screws 1S beneath said binding-strip, as and for the purposesset forth.

A ticket-holder consisting of a sheet of metal bent upon itself to forman upper and a lower plate with a space between them, and provided witha transverse row of teeth at the mouth or front, the said plates beingrigid or inflexible and the said space constant, so that it isimpossible to push a ticket into the space between the plates withoutscoring the surface of the same, substantially as set forth.

4. A ticket-holder consisting of an upper plate and a lower plate, andhaving an opening between them and provided with blades 22 at the rearend of said opening, arranged in vertical planes to indent the edge of aticket when pushed against the same, as set forth.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, this 28th day of August, A. I). 1888.

JOHN G. VE'BB.

llfitnesses:

JACOB FELBEL, MARTIN LAYDEN.

